Hi there, I'll be handling your box challenge critique.

Congratulations on completing the box challenge, it's definitely a lot more work than most people expect. Not only does it help deepen your understanding of important concepts but it shows your desire to learn as well. Be proud of what you've accomplished and that desire you've shown. That being said I'll try to keep this critique fairly brief so you can get working on the next steps as soon as possible.

Things you did well:

• You're doing a good job of keeping your lines confident and smoothly drawn.

• The majority of your hatching lines are kept evenly spaced which helps keep them tidy and shows you're putting time into planning them.

• Excellent work experimenting with orientations, proportions and rates of foreshortening. Experimenting is a great habit to build and helps us form a more well rounded understanding of new concepts. Without doing so we risk only being able to draw one particular way. Keep nurturing this habit and it'll pay off a lot in the future.

• Overall your convergences are improving and becoming more consistent. There are still cases of diverging lines but you're largely on the right track and some advice I mention in the next section should help as well.

Things you can work on:

• At times you're imagining your vanishing point between the viewer and the box. This results in you extending your lines in the incorrect direction causing your lines to diverge from where the vanishing point would actually be. Boxes 218 and 234 are some later examples of this. Here's a guide I wrote up that will hopefully help you determine how to place your vanishing points and line extensions more consistently.

• There are times when your lines converge in pairs or you attempt to keep your lines a bit too parallel which results in them diverging. This is an example of lines converging in pairs, and this shows the relation between each line in a set and their respective vanishing point. The inner pair of lines will be quite similar unless the box gets quite long and the outer pair can vary a lot depending on the location of the vanishing point. Move it further away and the lines become closer to parallel while moving it closer increases the rate of foreshortening.

The key things we want to remember from this exercise are that our lines should always converge as a set not in pairs, never diverge from the vanishing point and due to perspective they won't be completely parallel.

Overall while you did make a few mistakes your boxes are improving so far and with more mileage you'll continue to become more consistent. That being said I'll be marking your submission as complete and moving you on to lesson 2.

Keep practicing previous exercises and boxes as warm ups, and good luck.